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Francois Chouchan will play at the LACMA Auditorium in Los Angeles for the Sundays Live Concerts with Karen Vuong Soprano and Diana Tash Mezzo-Soprano, Judith Hansen piano, Phillip Levy violin and David Low cello Program: Haydn & Mendelssohn Songs, Duets and Welsh Folksongs.

LACMA auditorium / 5905 Wilshire Blvd- Los Angeles, CA 90036

MILSTEIN NATHAN / ABBADO / WIENER P. O. TCHAIKOVSKY / MENDELSSOHN: VIOLIN CTOS.

This biography of composer and pianist Felix Mendelssohn traces his development from musical child prodigy to a conductor whose influence as an advocate of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven is still felt to this day. A great deal of attention is paid to...

One of the most frequently performed of all choral works, this splendid oratorio unfolds in an inspired series of solo and choral passages filled with compelling drama and rich musical symbolism. Reprinted from an authoritative German edition, complete...

Traces the lives of ordinary people in Nazi-occupied Prague. In this ironic pageant of crossing and recrossing lives, death wins all the battles but ultimately loses the war, defeated by the fragile flowering of courage and defiance.

Bach’s St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world’s supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach’s death it was forgotten by all but a small number of his pupils and admirers. The public rediscovered it in...

Contents: The Adieu * Agitation * Boat-Song * The Brook * Confidence * Consolation (Still, Still With Thee) * Contemplation * Delirium * The Departure * Duet, Op. 38, No. 6 * Elegy * The Evening Star * Faith * The Fleecy Clouds * The Flight * Folk-Song *...

An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor, a legendary pianist and organist, and an accomplished painter and classicist. Lionized in his lifetime, he is best remembered today...

The "Scottish," "Italian," and "Reformation" symphonies rank among Mendelssohn's greatest works. All three of these staples of the orchestral repertoire appear here in one convenient volume, reproduced from authoritative Breitkopf and Härtel editions....